Pedigree Forge includes an integrated web browser (Microsoft’s “Webview2” technology). You can disable the default browser if you wish—select “Options” from the “Tools” menu. The on the “Options” dialog uncheck the “Use embedded browser” check box on the “Internet” tab. You can also set the home page here too.
To open a new browser tab in Pedigree Forge, use the “+” button along the top of the tabs:
A new browser tab will open, initially on the home page (this can be set from the Options dialog, accessed from the “Options” item on the “Tools” menu.
The browser works like external web browsers, allowing you to surf the web. Some common genealogy links are included along top of the browser tab. These can be customised (see section on bookmarks):
Browser tabs can also be opened in a separate window. To do this, use the “New Browser Window” from the “Web” menu:
This browser window will “float” on top of Pedigree Forge, and can have tabs of its own:
If you have a larger computer screen, you can also open more browser tabs and show them next to the content panels. To do this click on the “split” icon button on the right-hand side of the main Pedigree Forge window:
You can adjust the width of each side using the grip bar between. Clicking the “split” icon button again will hide the right-hand side panel.
You can customise the bookmark short-cut buttons that appear in each browser tab. To add a bookmark, navigate to the page you wish to be a book mark, then click on the “bookmark” icon, which is to the right of the address bar:
You will be prompted to add a name for the bookmark:
When you click “OK”, the bookmark will be added:
It will also be added to any new browser tabs created, but won’t be added to other tabs already open.
Bookmarks can be removed on the “Internet” tab of the “Options” dialog, accessed from “Options” on the “Tools” menu:
Select the bookmark you wish to remove from the “Bookmarks” list, then click on the Trash button. After being prompted to confirm, any new tabs created will not have that bookmark (it won’t be removed from currently opened bookmarks).
There are a few places within text fields and in the browser itself, that using a right-click context menu, gives you the ability to search the web for some text. The search engine to use can also be configured in the options dialog, as above.
If you need to empty the browser’s cache, for example clear all cookies, and auto-completion fields, this can be done from the “more options” button on the browser tabs: